YES, we looked like this — and we looked ****ing AWESOME. We need to bring this whole style BACK.
My only concern about this meme is that it originates from the 1980’s Memory Lane Facebook page, and I was dressing like this at Mary Washington College in the early 1990’s. Was I just behind the times? Maybe that was why people looked at me funny.
But I was big man on campus with these. I had people literally congratulating me on my pants — and that has not happened once since the 1990’s.
DC Comics. The actual title of the comic series is indeed “Doctor Fate.” I’m not sure why it is abbreviated on the cover.
The August 2022 issue of Down in the Dirt has arrived, and in it you can find my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone.” (Thanks, as always, to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for this outstanding literary magazine.) The magazine’s theme this month is “My Name Is Equality.”
You can purchase a copy of the issue at Amazon right here, or you can read it online here at the Scars Publications website.
You want to know how old I am? I can remember when Blockbuster Video was The Next Big Thing. It was a monolithic blue titan of a company that was gobbling up mom-and-pop video stores in whatever town it landed in. Think of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.”
Yes … I realize that the meme below is now a bit dated, as today Netflix is infamously suffering its own problems. It’s still funny, though.
Oil on canvas.
Her family recently announced that she passed away at the age of 89.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 